Month: April 2012
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Linda’s painting of Sadhbh
Linda has just finished a painting of our youngest granddaughter, Sadhbh, as she was at about six months old. Sadhbh is the daughter of Stuart and Tara. (Sadhbh is an Irish name , pronounced Sive, rhymes with five)
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Peeve of the week – Carpark Etiquette
I was in the car-park of our local shopping mall yesterday watching a family carefully transferring the contents of their full trolley into the boot of their car. The car park was full, and there was a car waiting for their parking spot. Traffic was queued up behind the waiting car and while everyone was…
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Amazing intersection of careers
For a long time Bob Brown has been one of my heroes. Last Friday he resigned from the leadership of the Australian Greens Party after a remarkably influential political career. Although I don’t know a lot about Jimi Hendrix, I do know that he was considered one of the most influential electric guitarists of all…
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Linda’s painting
Late last year Linda took up painting. No, not house-painting, but the sort you frame and hang on a wall. And she has made quite remarkable progress. Her chosen medium is water-colour and she loves it passionately. She’s set up a studio on our back patio and spends as much time as she can experimenting…
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Stations of The Cross
We went to the Stations of The Cross service this morning at St. Michael’s Church with Kitinn, Gaby, Kriscia, Carlo, Sabine and Camila. It’s a very moving service, with the young members of the church doing a re-enactment of the events on this day 21 centuries ago. Gaby became quite emotional as she watched and Linda shed a…